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• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  soldering stock photo of woman holding it wrong

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  • EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have that same soldering pen. Apparently I’ve been holding it wrong for years. I’m such an amateur.

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  • The_Overseer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is that pic from alamy ? I can’t tell

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • The_Overseer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No i was talking about how much the image is logo’d on

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  • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🤮

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  • tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hmmm

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• DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From feeding tiny bits of solder. Not from soldering.

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  • fl42v@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer grabbing small amounts of solder with the tip of the soldering iron instead. Helps a lot when solderling small stuff, esp. smd components

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    • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I prefer adding solder while soldering. The solder itself also holds flux, and often when you do it that way you don’t need to add flux yourself. Also if you solder through hole and you add solder to the tip before soldering all the flux dissappears, and you don’t have enough solder for the weld.

      And small amounts of solder doesn’t mean short strips, which is what you get when you do what OP posted.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just hold the whole roll with a bit rolled out straight in one hand, and the iron in the other. I think I might be doing it wrong lol.

        What do y’all expect?! I taught myself how to solder because my pokemon yellow cart died!

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It really depends on whether it’s soldering of SMD or THT components: it’s a lot nicer to just feed the solder when doing through hole pins, but if you’re manually soldering SMD components with their tiny 0.5 mm legs or smaller, a tiny bit of solder on the tip of the iron is enough for 3 or 4 legs and the soldering wire (even the .3mm stuff) just gets in the way.

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      • june@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t picture what you’re talking about at all with regards to how you burn yourself. I’ve been soldering small wires and components (RC car hobbyist) for years and never burned myself.

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or maybe you haven’t been doing it enough.

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